Alexander Scroggs and Rachel Ireland

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Husband Alexander Scroggs ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1704 or 2 Oct 1708 - Scotland 1 3
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           Died: 1788 - Cumberland Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Scroggs (      -      ) 4
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 1768 1

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   Other Spouse: Rachel Leith (      -      ) 1

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Wife Rachel Ireland ²

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Children

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1 M Allen Scroggs ¹

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         Spouse: Margaret Creigh (      -      ) 5

         Spouse: Mary Porter (      -      ) 5

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2 F Miriam Scroggs ^{1 5 6 7}

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           Born: 30 Jun 1775 - Cumberland Co, PA 2
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           Died: 28 Jul 1850 or 1855 1 7
         Buried:  - Gilgal Cemetery, East Mahoning Twp, Indiana Co, PA

         Spouse: William Work (1760-1828) 1 6 7
           Marr: 1792 - Cumberland Co, PA 1

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3 M John H. Scroggs ^{1 5 8}

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           Born: 1776 5
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           Died: 1844 5
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         Spouse: Isabella Walker (      -      ) 5

         Spouse: Anna White (      -      ) 5 9

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4 M Aaron Scroggs ^{1 5 8}

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           Born: 1778 5
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         Spouse: Sarah White (      -      ) 8 10

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5 M Moses Scroggs ^{1 5}

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           Born: 1780 5
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         Spouse: Margaret Thompson (      -      ) 5

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6 F Rachel Scroggs ⁵

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           Born: 1781 5
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         Spouse: William McConnelly (      -      ) 5

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7 F Sarah Scroggs ^{1 5}

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           Born: 1783 5
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         Spouse: Alexander Thompson (      -      ) 5

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8 M Rev. Elijah Scroggs ^{1 5}

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           Born: 1785 5
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           Died: 1851 5
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         Spouse: Margaret Imbrue (      -      ) 5

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9 F Mary Ireland Scroggs ^{1 5}

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           Born: 1788 5
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           Died: 1845 5
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         Spouse: Robert Thompson (      -      ) 5

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10 F Tabitha Elizabeth Scroggs ^{1 5}

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           Born: 1790 5
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           Died: 1870 5
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         Spouse: Hugh Thompson (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Scroggs

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He was born in Scotland. In 1745, when he was thirty-seven years of age, he came to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He located on a farm on Green Springs, in Hopewell (later Newton) Township, about three miles west of Newville. He was, like his brother Allen, a ruling elder in the Big Spring Associate church. At one time he was the owner of some 600 acres of land.

He had eleven children with his first wife, but no names are found for four of them. It is supposed that those died in infancy.
Another source: he had twelve children with his first wife, and ten with the second.

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 458.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 980.

3 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 41.

4 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 39.

5 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 42.

6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 246.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 744, 980.

8 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1118.

9 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1108.

10 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 42.